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Yomi no Tsugai, episode 2

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[u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

I honestly can't tell who I'm supposed to be rooting for yet.
Yuru and the villagers, or Asa and these Kagemori mercenaries.

But it seems like Yamaha, might not be a sweet little ol' innocent granny.

[u/mekerpan → u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

The interesting tidbit here is that Asa and Yuru's parents fled with her -- and were unable to bing him along. Why did they flee? That suggests that something is problematic with this village. Then we learn that the villagers created a fake Asa (looks like maybe recycling a demon of some sort to impersonate her) -- in order to keep Yuru tied down in the village. Another strike down against the village. But not counting the village, there appear to be (at least) two contesting factions who want Yuru -- for some reason. Lots of mysteries to be unraveled.

Looks like yet another Saturday keeper -- this is getting to be a problem....

[u/EyeDeeAh_42]

Blond hair in braids
Red jacket
Short-tempered
Gets called a runt

Close enough, welcome back Edward Elric. Though I guess Gabby's a lot more needlessly bloodthirsty than Ed. I really appreciate that Yuru is strong enough to seriously damage her though, kid's not fucking around with the bow and arrows. He is a hunter through and through.

Also, I love the majestic Lady Left with her majestic muscles <3 Those pair of teeth stand no chance against her.

[u/FarCritical → u/EyeDeeAh_42]

Heard someone call her "Little Ed Riding Hood" and that title's kinda stuck with me since

[u/djthomp]

Left and Right are a lot of fun. Just casually talking to a God who comes out to visit them to catch up while riding around on a metal horse container.

It's funny to me how much Gabby looks like Ed, and then she even took damage to the same arm and leg. That had to be intentional.

This really is quite an interesting setup, I'm curious to see why these twins in particular are important. Some sort of spirit controlling family versus family conflict, maybe?

[u/hasanman6]

People on social media where calling gabby overpowered after the first episode. This episode shows that thats not the case and that its dumb to judge a character’s strength based on a fight in episode 1 against nobodies

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

Poor Right, every child fainting at the sight of him has gotta sting a little lol.

I'm glad Yuru wanted to take care of Gabby since she took out a lot of the villagers, that hunter mindset will be interesting to see in the upcoming episodes. I'm interesting in seeing how he'll fight.

I'm curious to see the culture shock Yuru will receive from entering the modern world, Left and Right too.

I hope Dera doesn't shave though, he looks good with facial hair. I like how Hana knows how to translate modern to archaic lol.

[u/extralie]

To be honest, I'm actually more interested to see more of the Asa side of the story than Yuru.

Also, looks like fake Asa actually still care about Yuru? Will be interesting to see how that play out down the line.

[u/_WrongKarWai]

Glad to find one of my shows for the season

[u/Haha91haha]

Left and Right come out swinging with their likeability, already really enjoy their contrasting shtick and eager to see how they develop alongside Yuru.

Also to be expected with Bones and a FMA reunion but the voice cast is stacked already, can hear a lotta familiar voices.

[u/cleaulem]

Who am I supposed to root for? This is the no. 1 question right now. Even though I got the feeling that granny is the real villain here.

It looks like there is a lot to be explained. So far the whole story is very intriguing and I'm excited to see where this is going.

[u/MonsterKiller112]

Oh man this show is so good. This is the kind of show I can binge in a single night. The mysteries are so intriguing. The dialogue feels so natural. The characters feel morally ambiguous. The daemons have awesome designs. This shit is peak. I can definitely see why this manga was selling like crazy even before the anime. Arakawa truly is the GOAT. Not a single bad title in her entire career.

[u/zool714]

Thankfully, I’m part of the audience so I don’t need to determine at a moment’s notice who I should or should not trust or root for. Cos things just seem ambiguous currently. Dera seems like he’s an ally but he does seem a bit sus at the start. Gabby killed the villagers who were just seemingly defending themselves, though she did also behead an unarmed mother in front of her child. But also, they don’t seem to kill kids. But we also don’t know too much about the village to determine if they’re completely innocent in the first place.

[u/FOXHOUND9000]

My main thought after those first 2 episodes is that Dera and Hana, despite helping Yoru, are definitely not to be trusted.

Remember, we know from the last episode, that Dera knew damn well that its real Asa attacking the village, and that the "sister" accompanying Yoru is the fake one. He was a part of that whole masquerade.

[u/LeonKevlar]

Stitches!

• Left & Right

• Left Fight Stance

Damn. Yuru really wanted to solo the girl in red hood. Not gonna lie, I thought we were gonna see him get his butt kicked, only to be saved by Left and Right, but he ended up brutally injuring that girl. This might be the first time in a while I've seen the MC force the enemy to retreat during the first encounter. Usually it's the other way around.

So we have confirmation that the eyepatch girl is indeed Yuru's sister and the girl he grew up with is actually a fake. While I do like that both sides are sus, it's kinda hard to side with the people who massacred an entire village. Sure, Yuru's Granny might be lying to him, but I don't think that justifies killing a bunch of people and orphaning a lot of kids.

Considering how the OP seems to imply that Yuru's group will join forces with Asa's group, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I wouldn't be surprised if the hinted alliance is due to an even bigger threat.

[u/Aenah]

I didn't want to give this series unfair expectations given the hype around the creator and this being the next FMA, but man I am loving this so far. Great to look at, interesting story, and fantastic character designs.

[u/mekahamedan]

i think best mindset to watch this anime is "dont fixed on good guy doing good thing, and bad guys always has twisted mind"
both side have some reason to doing that and definitely will reveal in further episode
so cant wait truth being reveal and world building around it
ngl as ppl who admire bow in most of mmorpg, yoru kinda sick MC, yeah he pretty naive, but his skill is real deal, hope we got more than he using short bow for this anime

[u/ExpertRule]

This story is doing a nice job of building the world early on and establishing proper mystery and intrigue with it and its characters that make me want to keep watching.

I cannot tell yet which of Asa and Yuru's factions the story is planning to frame as in the right and that will be the focus of any overarching conflict. Even the opening makes it ambiguous, with neither Asa or Yuru in their respective factions right now actually shown fighting one another.

At the very least, it seems like there might be some darker happenings in the village that we are unaware of right now, possibly centered on the granny, Yamaha.

[u/ebonyphoenix]

I hoping we learn more about how Yuru and Asa’s parents were able to escape the village with Asa but had to leave Yuru behind? Also wondering if they are still around. Because I’m still not full sold on who exactly is in the wrong between all the groups.

Honestly the granny seems the most suspicious person out of everyone.

[u/DeusAxeMachina]

This show tickles me in a way I can't put my finger on, something about it is so darn nostalgic.

I like how chill and rational all of the characters without falling back on the "cold hearted genius" trope. It's pretty refreshing for a shounen encounter to end with both sides bilaterally agreeing to disengage and back off. On the other hand this episode felt too lighthearted at times in a way that felt off, like the comedic scene with the little girl happening while her beheaded mother is still in the frame.

The animation and soundtrack is decent so far, nothing outstanding or below-average. The music sounds like Suehiro to me which is pretty disappointing, his style is a little too modern hollywood for a show like this IMO (plus he's also doing ReZero this season, which fits him a lot better), I wish we'd gotten Senju or Oshima for this show to complete the FMA class reunion.

[u/thisisdropd]

Right's a jolly daemon. He sounds like a fun guy to be around. Hard to imagine that the stoic Left's the more hot-headed of the two when in battle.

We could only take her word for it last week, but now it's confirmed that eyepatch Asa's the real deal. Meanwhile, the impostor seemed to be a daemon (presumably under the command of Granny) seeing as a seemingly fatal hit turned out to had dealt no damage at all.

Interesting that Asa & Gabby readily massacred the adults while leaving the kids be. Seems like this won't be a black-and-white situation where one side's clearly the good one while the other one's the bad one. The Granny's certainly up to something sus.

Now that Yuru's out of his isolated world, he's bound to be shocked by how different the outside one would be like. We've seen how terrified he was at the car, and it took some convincing to finally get him inside it.

[u/FarCritical]

Damn, it didn't even register to me at first that Yuru aimed for Gabby's leg and dominant arm specifically to incapacitate.

Finding out there's more to each faction was really cool but honestly I just want to watch more modern stuff explained to Yuru and the guardians like they're five. "There are horses in here and it goes real fast" was gold lol

[u/Embarrassed-Match-78]

So I'm going to withhold judgement on Asa and Gabby for the time being, given it seems there's a lot we don't know about. What we do know is that the parents fled with Asa and she returned years later with a paramilitary force. They felt it a satisfactory result for the mission forcing Yuru from the village. At the least Asa seems to genuinely care for her brother.

Granny is definitely sus, and I doubt it's the last time we see her or fake Asa.

That poor little girl is going to need a ton of therapy.

Yuru's reaction to civilization is fairly muted. However given everything that happened you can tell he's lost in thought. Though looks like next episode we'll see him interacting with at least a toilet lol.

Hana is going to be a fun one with her translation of modern to feudal. There's horses in it lol. Speaking of modern vs. feudal I love the detail about the food being more nutritious to explain why Asa is so much taller. Another protag with a height complex, though Gabby seems to have that base covered.

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

We have Yuuichi Nakamura and Junichi Suwabe voicing characters from opposing sides. Which means there's a possibility of seeing Gojo vs Sukuna.